Advanced chart & notation editing

What's new at a glance

• Select bars with a long press — copy, paste and delete whole passages, or transpose just the selected bars.
• Enharmonic swap: respell any chord (C♯↔D♭, plus C↔B♯, F↔E♯, E↔F♭, B↔C♭) in every key, even transposed or locked.
• Connect notes into beamed groups — 8ths and 16ths beam just like engraved music.
• Step through your notes with Previous/Next arrows; chords walk voice by voice.
• New Symbols palette — switch chart colors between Classic and a sleek Minimal look.
• Volta brackets span the full bar; fermatas sit on any chord; segno and coda snap to the bar start.
• Night Mode, softened — a comfortable grey stage view across charts, scores and setlists.
• Sharing perfected: songs arrive with their key, key lock, rehearsal recording and hand-drawn notes exactly as you left them.
• Updated built-in User Guide covering all new features.
• Many refinements and fixes for iPad and iPhone.

Navigating your notes

When the note-entry keyboard is open, two arrow buttons sit beside the interval keypad: Previous and Next.

• Next steps the selection forward through the notes you have placed on the stave — the selected note shows a dashed ring, and the +/− pitch buttons, piano keyboard and duration chips all retarget it.
• Previous steps backwards. If nothing is selected, tapping Previous jumps straight to the last note you entered — the fastest way back into a run you just typed.
• Chords are walked voice by voice: Next visits a chord's notes from the lowest voice to the highest before moving on to the next beat; Previous mirrors this exactly.
• Walking past the final note returns you to writing mode — the cursor parks after the last note, so your next piano-key tap places a fresh note. No note is ever changed just by browsing.
• On iPhone the two arrows sit side by side (Previous first); on iPad, Previous sits directly under Next beside the interval keypad.

Adding intervals

The INT keypad builds chords from a selected note in one tap.

• Select a note — tap it, or walk to it with Previous/Next.
• Choose the direction with the ↑ / ↓ arrows next to INT.
• Tap a number 2–9: ScorDial adds a note at that interval above (↑) or below (↓) the selected note — 3 stacks a third, 5 a fifth, 8 an octave, and so on.
• Keep tapping to stack more voices; every added voice stays part of the same beat and shares the chord's stem.
• The interval buttons light up only while a note is selected.

Selecting, copying and deleting bars

Long-press any bar in a chord chart to enter bar-selection mode. Tap further bars to add or remove them from the selection — any combination works, not just ranges. A floating action bar appears with everything you can do:

• Copy — copies the selected bars: chords, repeat barlines, double bars and time-signature changes all travel with them.
• Paste — inserts the copied bars immediately after the highest selected bar. Tap a bar first to choose the paste target.
• Delete — removes all selected bars in one step (one Undo reverses the whole edit).
• Transpose ↑ / ↓ — shifts only the selected bars' chords by a semitone per tap, spelled to match the song's key.

When a paste or delete changes how many rows the chart has, everything below moves with the music: inserted staves (with their notes), drawn ink, mini staves, text and annotations all shift so they keep pointing at the same bars. Undo and Redo reverse the whole movement.

To leave selection mode, tap the X on the action bar, switch tools, or tap Read.

Enharmonic swap

Respell a chord without changing its sound:

• Select a bar (long-press), then tap Enharm on the action bar.
• Every chord becomes a tap target; the first chord of the lowest selected bar is pre-selected.
• Tap the chord you want, then tap Swap: C♯ becomes D♭, G♭ becomes F♯, and back again with another tap.
• The natural pairs work too: C↔B♯, B↔C♭, E↔F♭, F↔E♯. (D, G and A have no single-accidental equivalent, so Swap leaves them alone.)
• The respelling is stored with the song, survives sharing to any device, and shows correctly under any view transposition. Each swap is a single Undo step.

Connecting notes (beams)

Eighth and sixteenth notes can be beamed into groups exactly as in engraved music:

• The Connect chip lives in the durations row of the note keyboard.
• With a note selected, Connect toggles a beam from that note to the next one.
• With nothing selected, Connect arms itself: the next note you place closes the beam to the previous note — mirroring how Tie works.
• Chains of any length beam as one group; mixed 8th/16th runs draw the correct secondary beams and stubs automatically.
• Beams travel inside .scordial and .scoreset files and render identically on iPad, iPhone and Android.

More new additions

• Section marks A, B, C, D — the Music Symbols menu now includes plain rehearsal letters alongside Intro/Verse/Chorus.
• Delete Setlist and Songs — the setlist menu can now remove a setlist together with every song in it (with an are-you-sure confirmation; songs shared with other setlists are removed too).
• Recordings travel — rehearsal recordings made inside a chart are now included when you share a song or setlist to another device.
• Import naming — importing a song whose title already exists creates an independent copy with a numbered suffix (Song_01, Song_02 …).
• Night mode, softened — the dark view now lifts pure black to a comfortable grey; notation and ink read near-white, exports always keep the daylight look. The moon toggle lives in the annotator's menu on every document.